RISE with SAP collapses licenses, hosting, tooling and support into one subscription
Moving a live SAP landscape to the cloud used to mean stitching together software licenses, hosting contracts, migration tooling, and support agreements — each with its own owner, and every gap between them yours to manage. RISE with SAP collapses that into one subscription: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, the managed infrastructure it runs on, SAP Enterprise Support, SAP Business Technology Platform, and the methodology to get you there.
Altivate — an SAP Gold Partner and winner of SAP’s Best RISE Partner in MEA award for 2021 — delivers RISE as what it really is: the lowest-risk route from SAP ECC to a clean, AI-ready ERP core.
Why RISE with SAP
The trigger is a date.
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC ends on 31 December 2027, and every year on-premise adds run cost, custom code, and upgrade debt. But the case for RISE is bigger than the deadline. It converts a capital-heavy, multi-vendor ERP estate into one predictable subscription; it shifts infrastructure operations, patching, and disaster recovery to SAP with a single accountable party; and it lands you on the cloud core that SAP Business AI and Joule are actually built for — something ECC will never get.
The commercial logic
One contract replaces separate license, hosting, and support agreements — software, SAP-managed infrastructure on the hyperscaler you choose, SAP Enterprise Support, and the platform for clean-core extensions, in a single subscription with a single SLA owner. Fewer moving parts to negotiate, fewer seams to fail, and a total cost of ownership you can actually forecast.
What RISE with SAP delivers
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
A single-tenant cloud ERP that behaves like your own system: keep the configurations and custom developments that still earn their place, retire the ones that don’t, and move at your own release pace.
Managed infrastructure & support
SAP runs the technical stack — provisioning, operations, SLAs, backup, and disaster recovery — on the hyperscaler you choose, with SAP Enterprise Support in the same contract and one party accountable end to end.
SAP BTP entitlements
Cloud credits for SAP Business Technology Platform — the integration, extension, and analytics layer where clean-core custom development lives, so modernization starts on day one instead of after go-live.
SAP Business Network
Starter capacity on SAP Business Network to digitize collaboration beyond your four walls — suppliers, logistics, and asset intelligence on the network your trading partners already use.
Adoption framework & methodology
SAP’s tools and services for the move itself — readiness checks, migration tooling, and a delivery methodology with clean-core KPIs tracked on the RISE dashboard, executed by a partner like Altivate.
Embedded SAP Business AI
Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot, comes embedded with RISE — included in the premium tiers along with SAP AI units — so AI lands in the flow of work across finance, supply chain, and procurement, not in a side project.
RISE or GROW? The 60-second answer
SAP packages two on-ramps to S/4HANA Cloud, and the right one is decided by your landscape, not by fashion.
RISE with SAP — brownfield
For existing SAP customers. The modernization path: convert your existing SAP ECC (or on-premise S/4HANA) landscape to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition — keeping the process investments that still earn their place, retiring the ones that don’t, and carrying your data history with you. Built for organizations with real complexity to bring along. System conversion, Private Edition, keep what works.
GROW with SAP — greenfield
For new SAP adopters. The standardized path: adopt SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition greenfield, with preconfigured best practices, fit-to-standard delivery, and continuous innovation through automatic upgrades — the fastest route to a modern ERP for organizations starting clean. See our GROW with SAP page for that journey. Fit-to-standard, Public Edition, always current.
Still weighing the two? Our RISE vs GROW decision guide → walks through the trade-offs — or skip the reading and let a free assessment answer it from your actual landscape.
How Altivate delivers RISE
RISE is a commercial package — the outcome still depends on who implements it. Altivate runs the program end to end, methodology-led.
Assess & build the case
RISE readiness assessment: landscape and custom-code analysis, data quality, a TCO comparison against your status quo, and a costed roadmap that recommends RISE, GROW, or a selective transition on evidence.
Migrate the brownfield
System conversion or selective data transition into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition — SAP Activate delivery with Altivate’s accelerators, custom-code remediation, data migration, and a rehearsed cutover.
Build the clean core
Custom code moves out of the core: side-by-side extensions, integrations, and apps on SAP BTP, governed so clean-core KPIs stay green — and every future upgrade stays fast and cheap.
Enable AI & run
Joule activation and SAP Business AI use cases mapped to your processes, then hypercare into application management — continuous improvement on a core that’s finally easy to change.
Recognized RISE with SAP delivery
When SAP introduced RISE, it named Altivate its Best RISE Partner in MEA for 2021 → — recognition earned in delivery, not in a pitch deck.
Organizations that have moved to SAP’s cloud ERP with Altivate include:
As an SAP Gold Partner certified to ISO 27001, the team moving your ERP to the cloud is also accountable for the security governance around it.
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Whether your ECC landscape is ten years old or twenty-five, the first step is the same: understand exactly where you stand, what RISE would cost against your status quo, and which transition path carries the least risk. That’s a conversation, not a contract.
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